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Aretha Franklin’s Family Found Eulogy ‘Distasteful’

Mariam Harun 04/09/2018

Aretha Franklin’s family have said that they found the closing eulogy at her funeral offensive and distasteful. The Rev. Jasper Williams Jr. said black America was losing “its soul” and described children raised without a father as “abortion after birth”. “He spoke for 50 minutes and at no time did he properly eulogise her,” said […]Read More

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Aretha Franklin, Indomitable ‘Queen of Soul,’ Dies at 76

Tolani Giwa 17/08/2018

Aretha Franklin, universally acclaimed as the “Queen of Soul” and one of America’s greatest singers in any style, died on Thursday at her home in Detroit. She was 76. The cause was advanced pancreatic cancer, her publicist, Gwendolyn Quinn, said. In her indelible late-1960s hits, Ms. Franklin brought the righteous fervor of gospel music to […]Read More